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Farmeri aureurn, a very showy variety, but generally thought not to have so 
good a colour as D. densiflorum. 
A novelty in stove plants, Dalechampia Roezliana rosea, of which a figure 
and description is given at p. 80, was shown by Mr. Bull, and awarded a 
first-class certificate. It will flower well-nigh all the year round. Samyda 
nobilis, a stove plant with large shining green leaves, also from Mr. Bull, 
has good bold foliage for a sub-tropical garden, should it be hardy enough to 
stand so much exposure. The golden-veined Iresine Herbstii aurco-reticulata 
was shown by Messrs. Veitcli & Sons. As produced it would make a good 
conservatory plant, but its capabilities as a bedder have yet to be tested. 
A group of double and single varieties of Primula sinensis jhnbriata, 
shown by Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, showed an advance in the way 
of marking of the flowers, the result of hybridisation, but the plants were 
not good specimens; they looked as if they had suffered from travelling. 
Those named Magenta King and Magenta Queen, two bright-looking flowers, 
were too much alike, the colour being a bright magenta crimson, and the 
flowers large and well fringed; they also had Fern-leaved foliage. Fairy 
Nymph was a white flower flaked with rosy lilac: the blooms and plant of 
this were both small and ill-developed. Blushing Bride (a Fern-leaved variety), 
and Fairy Princess, were also too much alike to be variously named: the 
flowers were white, suffused and edged with pink. Blushing Beauty, a 
white-ground flower with lemon eye and circle of rosy lilac, was very novel, 
but the plant was small and weakly. The double varieties were very good, 
especially Princess, white, flaked with rosy lilac; and White Queen, pure 
white, the flowers extra large, and finely fringed. Lilac Model had large 
lilac double flowers. A very pretty group of Cyclamens was also shown by 
the same firm; one, strangely enough, had both red and white flowers of 
coum and persicum springing from the same tuber. 
At the Royal Horticultural Society’s First Spring Show, on March 19th, 
were two golden variegated forms of Betinospora, the one of dwarfer and 
closer growth than the other, both shown by Mr. Shenton, of Biggleswade. 
Messrs. F. & A. Smith had Azalea Hector, a new sort, of a dull dark crimson 
colour, the flowers medium-sized, of good form, and the plant free-blooming; 
this was commended. A commendation was given to Cineraria Duke of 
Northumberland, bright crimson self, with dark disc dashed with blue, shown 
by Mr. Fairbairn, of Syon House. The colour was superb, but the petals 
somewhat long and thin, though smooth. It is a very showy variety. 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son’s golden-foliaged Pyrethrum Golden 
Fleece, raised from seed of the common double white, of dwarf and bushy 
habit, and promising to be a very useful bedding plant, was commended. 
Messrs. Yeitch & Sons received a first-class certificate for Hippeastrum 
pardinum, a decided novelty and a supposed new species. It had pale 
creamy ground flowers, densely marked like the spotted Calceolarias, with 
small rosy crimson spots. As shown, it was of a dwarf habit, and it 
awakened considerable interest. Messrs. Yeitch also received a second-class 
certificate for a new Orchid, probably a Mormodes, a curiously-spotted species. 
Mr. Bull received first-class certificates for two splendid Aralias —viz., 
A. crassifolia picta, with long narrow dark bronzy leaves, having a reddish 
rib, and blotched with pale green at the spines ; and A. spathulata, having 
also long bronzy leaves, with a pale line running up the centre, and 
conspicuous spreading teeth of two sizes. Also for Agave macracantha, a small¬ 
growing kind, with pale slate-coloured leaves, and bronzy red spines. Mr. Bull 
